How are software engineers objectively measured when problems span such large difficulty ranges and there are multiple ways to implement solutions?

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Always been curious how “workload” is assigned and estimated for software engineers.

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Answer 1

As an agile product pwner, I won’t answer your question but rsther ask you: why?
You can try to measure your software engineers but what’s the point. More likely then not if you think your SE are underperforming there is a problem, usually not laziness. It’s very likely that you don’t want to fire anyone (because that’s paperwork, painful and you’ll need to hire someone else which gives no guarantee to be a lot better) so your second best option is to understand what is wrong and then help your team skillup.
Happy devs who have time to learn eventually end up being good devs. Pressure is almost always useless